Mower County transcript., 1887-06-01

Endless practice, practice, practice is
the price paid for good spelling. There
is no royal road to the goal. Word upon
word, here little one, there hard one
over and over again; and, after all the
best OF us, in spite of all we can do will,
misspell the very words we ought not.
The English is the most outrageously spelt
civilized language among the sisterhood
of tongues.
There are two classes of earnest learners
among teachers-those who initiate, and
those who adapt. The one says, "I'll do
like that" the other, "Ilr do something
equally as good" The last class is con-
tinuallY asking, what end is reached7
What principle is followed?" Thoughts
go deeper than the surface. These have
the true educational spirit, and the larger
this class grows, the better will our schools
be taught
The very youngest classes are not too
young to begin instruction in civil
government; not, of course, in direct
and formal instruction. nor in the full ap-
plication of the conditions of civil liberty
entire free agency, and the choice or
electiOnl lof rules, s,-that would be absurd;
but In the inculcation and illustration of
such principles, as that order is necessary
to social happiness,i.e. happiness of the
members OF the school; that disorder, be-
ing an infringementaof the rights of soci-
ETY., lie, of the school, must be checked,
i.e.. punished; that the wishes of the mi
Dority must give way to the wishes of the
majority, but that the majority must act
in accordance with justice; and so Oh
Educational Weekly. ..s,..-
Every teacher, as soon after the COM
mencement Of his term OF school as prac-
ticable, should make it sacred, binding
duty to visit all the families in the district
having children to be educated. seek the
cooperation ofparents and secure If pos
sible the regular attendance ofthe children
at school. BY an early acquaintance with
the people, frequent friendly visits to the
parents and the manifestation of warm
personal interest in the educational vel
fare of the children, the teacher gains q
prestige that cannot fail to produce the
best results. Absenteeism, truancy, and
tardiness, the bane Of all schools. may, IN
manner, be broken up throught his sYs
tenn of visitation.
TEACHERS AND CHARA cTER BUILDING.
ence can be welded as through the
schoolroom. The man who writes for
teachers who speaks to teachers, has the
rarest privilege of molding human society.
The teacher. IN her every day work. is
liable to forget her high mission, in the
details of her labor; is liable to become
Indifferent to the character-building possi-
bilitles; is liable to forget how high intel
ligent activity of mind is above routine
study of facts and processes; how much
nObler self control is than mere obedience
how much grander loving confidence is
than forced submission to authority; how
much more worthy serenity in service is
than fretful impatience.- of Ed
| ucation.
A few months of physical cleanli mes s;
few months systematic training in hab-
its of industry; few months absolute
subordination of their own wills to the
dictates of sound moral sense, in sur
roundings which have no association with
the scenes they have left, and where the
language they used, even the thoughts
they breathed as q matter of course in
those scenes, are IN these among things
forbidden-will work most marvellous
change in many instances. This entire
| change, this separation from their past,
does in a way, so clear away the films of
sense, so disslpate the glamour that threw
Its lurid light round the scenes of sin they
have left, that becoming accustomed to
the regularity Of well. ordered lives it is
possible TO reach their hearts. Report of
the Mass. industrial School for Girls.